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Sir Philip John Denton Toosey
Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey c.1942
Born
(1904-08-12)12 August 1904 Oxton, Birkenhead
Died
22 December 1975(1975-12-22) (aged 71)
Buried
Landican Cemetery
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1927–1954
Rank
Brigadier
Service number
38862
Unit
Royal Artillery Hertfordshire Yeomanry
Commands held
135th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Battles/wars
World War II
Battle of Singapore
Awards
Knight Bachelor Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Territorial Decoration
Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton TooseyCBE, DSO, TD, JP (12 August 1904 – 22 December 1975) was, as a lieutenant colonel, the senior Allied officer in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp at Tha Maa Kham (known as Tamarkan) in Thailand during World War II. The men at this camp built Bridge 277 of the Burma Railway as later fictionalized in the book The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle, and since adapted into the Oscar-winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai in which Alec Guinness played the senior British officer, Lt Col Nicholson. Both the book and film outraged former prisoners because Toosey did not collaborate with the enemy, unlike the fictional Lt Col Nicholson.
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